At least the Byzantines did not just allow the islamist Ottomans to just walk in like we are doing.
I think we are Austria-Hungary — multiculturalism is killing us.
I for one have no doubts about Professor Hanson’s question.
“Are We the Byzantines?”
YES!
Recently, we are more like Weimar Berlin with homosexuals and other perverts pouring out of the closet,
I once read an article about the fall of the western Roman Empire. The author listed all the usual reasons for it. Then he added one I hadn’t heard before.
He said the Roman Empire fell because its inhabitants believed it couldn’t fall. Such a thing just couldn’t happen. Impossible! So there was no need to take any corrective action. Party on!
I think that description pretty much fits us today.
Are We the Byzantines?
No, we are Sodom and Gomorrah, and will suffer the same fate.
The Republic has failed because we were not able to keep it.
Istanbul not Constantinople
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALkjA1t8ibQ
Enjoy the ear worm
Perfect.
We are far below the level of that bunch. They still knew the difference between men and women.
All civilizations fall. Follows a pattern. We are in process. Amazing how blind citizens for the most part are.
Overextension
Economic Decline
Political Instability
Military Defeat
Cultural and Social Change
We are far below the level of that bunch. They still knew the difference between men and women.
Good article.
True: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople
That was the end of Byzantium. They never really recovered after that and simply waited to be over run by the Ottomans. Their destruction was at their own brothers hands- greed.
In our case I believe our destruction is more in line with Western Rome. We are so perverted, weird, dysfunctional, over run by outside interests and corrupt that we are becoming weak, just waiting for someone to eventually knock us off the thrown like when Rome was sacked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410)
I guess my point is that the Byzantines were brought down by an outside force, while Rome was more or less brought down by internal forces which is what is happening to us.
From what I gather from history, he’s right in that every empire gets this feeling of being “forever” and “invincible” eventually. Of course all their power and wealth was created usually over many generations and in the later years this wealth and power simply gets squandered to the wind.
We are a nation that began with 13 Colonies, like Christ and His 12.
We are a nation that grew to 50 states, like the New Covenant Church grew at 50.
America is a picture, on a nations level, of the Kingdom of heaven on earth, the Church.
A fully leavened garden, where lawlessness and disorder have overcome law and order. Where Just us has overcome Justice..
A habitation of demons..
Just as predicted..
For the Church.
And its nation level equivalent, America..
Spiritually, that has to fall.
Symbolically, the serpent has to be transformed back into a staff for shepherding and ministering, like Moses and Aaron’s staffs transformed back from serpents.
That helps Israel to believe in their deliverance by the Passover Lamb.
A little hope that a corrupted, serpent led America and Church, aren’t lost and doomed.
Just walking out His plan..
For His purposes and His Glory..
Not mentioned is that anything that might try to overtake us is even more incompetent and stupid than we are. That includes the ChiComm Han grandpas and the 50 IQ muslims.
Return tomorrow.
We see enough of that here on this board don't we. We are rewarded, for expressing our love for this country that we put first above all other countries, by those who cheerlead for Ukraine & Messiah Zelenskyy, as Putinist's, Russian Bots, etc.
When will these people open their eyes are realize that our nation is being led by evil, who in addition to being evil, are idiots.
Russia tried to ally itself with the U.S., because they fear China who lives within striking distance of them, and are far more ambitious then the American people are.
But they were forced to join forces with China by the U.S. full of people who inherited and or moved into a standard of living that they themselves had no longer earned, just as VDH says of the Byzantines had done. But the Byzantines was able to hold on 4 times longer than we were able to.
Of course, some of the staunchest supporters are immigrants who came to this nation and added to her greatness, instead of getting whatever they could, however they could, instead of good hard honest work.
Yes, we are the Byzantines, but on steroids.